Top 10 longest-serving tech CEOs

Years as CEO: 13.9
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 70.8%

10. Steve Kaufer, TripAdvisor (tied with Jim Cashman III, of Ansys)

Years as CEO: 13.9
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 70.8%

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9. Reed Hastings, Netflix

Years as CEO: 15.3
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 40.8%

9. Reed Hastings, Netflix

Years as CEO: 15.3
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 40.8%

Photo: Jack Dempsey / Associated Press

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8. Scott Scherr, Ultimate Software Group

Years as CEO: 17.3
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 20.2%

8. Scott Scherr, Ultimate Software Group

Years as CEO: 17.3
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 20.2%

Photo: Ultimate Software Group

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7. Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com

Years as CEO: 17.7
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 38.9%

7. Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com

Years as CEO: 17.7
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 38.9%

Photo: Ted S. Warren / Associated Press

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6. S. Steve Singh, Concur Technologies

Years as CEO: 17.9
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 9.6%

6. S. Steve Singh, Concur Technologies

Years as CEO: 17.9
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 9.6%

Photo: Concur Technologies

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5. John Chambers, Cisco Systems

Years as CEO: 19
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 14.3%

5. John Chambers, Cisco Systems

Years as CEO: 19
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 14.3%

Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

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4. Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia

Years as CEO: 20.8
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 16.7%

4. Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia

Years as CEO: 20.8
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 16.7%

Photo: Jacob Kepler / Bloomberg

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3. Steve Sanghi, Microchip Technology

Years as CEO: 22.3
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 24.1%

3. Steve Sanghi, Microchip Technology

Years as CEO: 22.3
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 24.1%

Photo: DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP/Getty Images

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2. Robert Kotick, Activision Blizzard

Years as CEO: 22.9
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 16.4%

2. Robert Kotick, Activision Blizzard

Years as CEO: 22.9
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 16.4%

Photo: Jason Merritt / Getty Images for Activision

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1. Larry Ellison, Oracle

Years as CEO: 36.7
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 25.1%

1. Larry Ellison, Oracle

Years as CEO: 36.7
Stock's annualized total return during tenure: 25.1%

Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

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By Bloomberg Rankings

When Microsoft named Satya Nadella as its new boss, it ended Steve Ballmer’s reign as one of the longest-serving CEOs of a tech company. That’s despite an annualized total return of just 0.4 percent for the software giant’s stock during Ballmer’s 14 years on the job.

How does Ballmer’s tenure compare with other tech chiefs? To find out, Bloomberg Rankings looked at the 100 largest tech companies by market capitalization and came up with a list of current CEOs with the longest tenures. One chief executive has held the throne more than twice as long as Ballmer. See who made the list.

Methodology: Bloomberg ranked the 100 largest technology companies by market capitalization based on the tenure of their CEOs and identified the 10 longest-serving executives. Included were e-commerce, discretionary Internet media and Internet-based services companies; excluded were technology distributors and medical software companies. Tenure and total return were calculated from the end of the month the CEO started until January 31, 2014. For companies that were not public when a CEO started, total return was calculated from the end of the month the stock began trading.